# Hugging Face — Safetensors is Joining the PyTorch Foundation

- Company: Hugging Face (huggingface.co)
- Announced: 2026-04-08T00:00:00+00:00
- Subject: Platform
- Source: https://huggingface.co/blog/safetensors-joins-pytorch-foundation
- Record: https://forck.live/items/1523-safetensors-is-joining-the-pytorch-foundation

Safetensors, a format for storing model weights, is joining the PyTorch Foundation as a hosted project under the Linux Foundation, with governance moving to the community while Hugging Face maintainers continue leading. No breaking changes for users.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://huggingface.co/blog/safetensors-joins-pytorch-foundation:

> Today, we're announcing that Safetensors has joined the PyTorch Foundation as a foundation-hosted project under the Linux Foundation, alongside DeepSpeed, Helion, Ray, vLLM, and PyTorch itself.

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